Legal Opinion
Adams v. Raintree Vacation Exchange, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 20, 2012No. 11-3576PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to consider the enforceability of a forum selection clause by entities not named as parties to the contract in which the clause appears.
The plaintiffs are 250 purchasers of timeshare interests in villas at a resort known as Club Regina, or alternatively as the Residence Club at Grand Regina. The resort is in San José del Cabo, a resort area on the Pacific Coast in Baja California (which despite its name is part of Mexico). The plaintiffs bought these interests between 2004 and 2006 from a Mexican company named Desarrollos Turísticos Regina, S. de…
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